Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.
Bill BowermanNow to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.
Bill BowermanThe real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.
Bill Bowerman